Precolonial Mexico had thirty million people

Evidence

Central Mexico alone supported some thirty million people. At the same time, the population of Europe as far east as the Ural Mountains was around fifty million. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 46

Categorization

• SEED: Angles for a piece contrasting a single Indigenous region’s population with all of Europe — dismantles the ‘empty continent’ trope.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 46
• XREF: connects to: Hispaniola’s indigenous population collapsed from 750,000 to 29,000 within two decades; Mexico’s native population collapsed from 25 million to about one million in nine decades — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 628; Mexico’s pre-conquest population exceeded twenty-five million